Music that's about (or mentions) factory or manual labour type work

Patti Smith and Piss Factory.

I ran a search and couldn't see anything like this on the forum before, but I could be wrong.





What have you got?

 

Gracie Fields winning us the war with this one....

 

Dire Straits- Money For Nothing.

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV's

 

Billy Joel - Allentown:

 

Bruce Springsteen- Factory

 

Working in a Coal Mine/Lee Dorsey

 

Edgar Broughton Band - American Boy Soldier:

 

Dirty Old Town - Pogues

 

Rolling Stones - Factory Girl

 

Jimmy Dean
Big Bad John (1961)

 

Bruce Springsteen: “Working on the Highway”

 

I like the version by Devo too.

 

Wings
Richard Cory (1976)

 

Bruce Springsteen, "The River":

I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy

 

Van Morrison: “Cleaning Windows”

 

An entire album on the subject:

Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson - Industry

 

Lou Reed & John Cale - Work



a song about Andy Warhol and his Factory

 

Captain Beefheart - Hard Workin' Man:

 

Chain Gang-Sam Cooke

 

I love this song!

 

Warren Zevon "The Factory" - references Bruce's "Factory".

 

The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang: